Ecosystems
A biological community of interacting organisms AND their physical environment.
What is an Ecosystem?
These organisms are at the bottom of a food chain.
What are producers?
The resources that are found in the environment and developed without the intervention of humans are called:
Natural Resources
The building block of all matter - the smallest unit.
What is an atom?
This is a self-contained living thing (a plant, an animal, or a microorganism)
What is an organism?
The living things in the ecosystem are
What is biotic?
These organisms in a food chain eat the producers. They are also called herbivores.
What are primary consumers?
Classify this as man-made or a natural resource: trees
What is a natural resource?
Which two particles are part of the nucleus of an atom? (one has a positive charge, and one has a neutral charge)
What are proton and neutron?
Physical Characteristics that organisms inherit from their parents.
What is Genetic Factors?
The non-living things in the environment are called
What is abiotic?
These organisms in a food chain eat the primary consumers. They are also called carnivores.
What are Secondary Consumers?
Classify this as man-made or a natural resource: water
What is a Natural Resource?
What is the negatively charged particle circling the nucleus of an atom?
What is an electron?
Choose whether this factor is genetic (inherited from parents) or environmental (something in the ecosystem): thorns on a cactus
What is a genetic factor?
This is a group of the same kind of organisms
what is a population?
The energy in the food chain comes from here:
What is the sun?
Classify this as man-made or a natural resource: plastic
What is a man-made resource.
Anything that has mass and takes up space
What is matter?
Choose whether this factor is genetic (inherited from parents) or environmental (something in the ecosystem): a drought
What is an environmental factor?
These organisms eat dead things
What is a decomposer?
The arrows in a food chain show the direction that ____ flows.
What is energy?
Classify this as man-made or a natural resource: your chromebook
What is a man-made resource.
When Thermal Energy is added, particles in the matter
What is "move faster?"
Any factor in the ecosystem, whether biotic or abiotic that influences living organisms.
What is Environmental Factors?